Anyone familiar with Lexington know if they are red or blue?
Lexington is a college town so it’s filled with lefties. The area is fairly conservative and we actually considered moving there a few years back too..
The county (Rockbridge) went Trump (around 62-percent). The city itself might have been closer to a 50-50 split. In general, all non-urban counties of Virginia....are ‘red’. Cities like Arlington, Richmond, etc....usually are 70-percent ‘blue’.
Very blue leftist city. They don’t want to honor the history of that area.
They are home to one patriotic university, Virginia Military Institute and a much larger one, Washington and Lee which is not.
Another dirty little secret about Lexington is that they treat illegal aliens better than citizens. We were college shopping there back in 2005 when my daughter stepped back a little too far while trying to take a picture of some of the beautiful landscapes and architecture in the region. She stumbled, landed hard on her elbow and screamed in pain.
We weren't sure if she had broken a bone, so rushed her to the nearest clinic in the area which happened to be open . . . in Lexington.
It wasn't particularly busy, but she had to sit writhing in pain while a couple of illegal alien looking patients with sniffles type symptoms got ushered right in with a Spanish translator and zero questions about insurance or co-pays.
Even though we had waited longer than some of the previously described freebie patients, when it finally was my daughter's turn, they carefully checked our daughter's insurance, took a $50 co-pay and led her in to take an x-ray. This was a Saturday and they told us there was no MD on duty who could read the x-ray, so to call back on Monday for the result. I demanded to at least see the x-ray that I'd paid for and from my rudimentary training (my father was a veterinarian and sometimes I accompanied him), I could tell it PROBABLY wasn't a fracture.
I then asked if she could at least have the wrist splinted and put in a sling as a precautionary measure and they told me no because they weren't sure of the result. After some discussion that went nowhere, I ended up driving to a nearby drug store, bought the supplies and splint it and put it in a sling myself. Lexington is not exactly a small town. It has two universities and should've had someone available who was more capable of reading x-rays, even from a distance, I thought.
When we finally got a return call on Monday, they told us it wasn't a fracture and to bring her in for a splint and a sling. I told them we were back in Pennsylvania and we would take care of it.
My father (God rest his soul) had told me never to tell MDs that you had practiced medicine or you might get in trouble. Although, in his later years when he had seen them regularly, he often told those less competent that he'd done better work on a horse!
Don’t know about Lexington alone, but it’s in Rockbridge Country which went for Trump 63% to Hillary 33%.
https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/virginia/
City of Lexington is Commie RED.